Monday, July 4, 2016

America Destroyed -- Paul Craig Roberts

When I was
young, America still existed. No more. Not even the blather from the 4th of
July can hide the obvious fact.

The young do
not know that they have lost their country, because they are born into a time
when the country is lost. To them that is normalcy.

Besides, the
young are too busy texting and describing themselves, often intimately, on
social media to be aware of the fate that awaits them, lost as they are in
their insouciance.

When I was
young, the police were the public’s friends. We could count on them to help us,
not abuse us. False arrest was rare. Abuse of citizens even rarer. Today both
are routine.

Over the
years I have written about the transformation of the police from protectors of
the public into abusers of the public.

Over these
years I have received many letters from former policemen who write that they gave
up their profession out of disgust of the corruption and unaccountable
brutality, or as a result of fear that they would be forced to participate in
the corruption or become a victim of it.

Generally
speaking, police departments are unaccountable, because mayors, county
commissioners, and state representatives, as well as US Congressmen, can be
arrested on false charges and demonized by the presstitutes as “criminals.”
What police reporter do you know who is not on the side of the police, the
source of his stories? The presstitutes participate in the frame-ups.

America is a
lost country. The total corruption of every public and private institution is
complete. Nothing remains but tyranny. And lies. Endless lies.

Here is an
excerpt of the latest letter from a former police officer, the kind of police
officer in which we are in desperate need:

about the TSA abuse of the handicapped young woman and her mother, the ugliness
of this incident moved me to write to you. I became a police officer, in a
major city, two days before my 21st birthday. I quit after 14 years as I had
become disgusted with the entire profession.

“I remember
one old Sgt., upon hearing that I was leaving, say, “Don’t they see what is
happening? All of our best young men are quitting.” I guess I wasn’t alone.

“These TSA
officers are not just brutal and unfeeling. They are also very stupid. This is
what the rulers wanted. They didn’t want people who could think. They want
people who would follow orders. Well, they have what they wanted.”